“With almost 15 years of separation and reflection, what do you think it was about ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ that went beyond just capturing readers’ attention, but their hearts as well?”
Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) is a computational designer merging code, design, art & craft skills. Starting in the deep end of the early 8-bit demo scene, for the past 2 decades he’s been adopting a trans-disciplinary way of working and been laterally involved in a wide range of digital disciplines. With his studio PostSpectacular, he is actively exploring current possibilities at the intersection of design, art, software development and education and applying these in a variety of fields. A strong conceptual thinker and always striving for maximum creative freedom, Karsten’s design approach is based on treating ideas as software at the heart, which in turn informs all other facets of each project. When not creating, he travels the world consulting and teaching workshops about the generative design approach, open source and employing code as creative tool. He’s been an early contributor to the Processing.org project and to various books about programming and graphic design, and his work has been featured in the press and exhibited internationally, including the MoMA, New York.
has made a solid name for himself on the London scene emerging as a talented resident for the likes of Bugged Out! and Tiga’s imprint Turbo as well as the new ‘High Horse’ night at T-Bar with mates Casper C and Skull Juice. Production projects with Hypercolour boss Alex Jones and with Steve Cook as Clouded Vision are forging the beginning of a promising and wide-ranging sound with remixes already for the likes of The Proxy, Brodinski and Cari Lekebusch. With temperatures soaring this week Matt’s mix is perfect for those long summer evenings, or as he says “this mix is pretty typical of what you might expect from the latter portion of a warm up set, when the dance floor has filled, and the energy goes up a notch.”
